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What Does It Take To Successfully Implement Personalized Learning at Scale?

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We've branded our district with the belief that there’s no average student; every student has a jagged learning profile. We've branded our district with the belief that there’s no average student; every student has a jagged learning profile. Change management is crucial to this process.

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Why Building a Diverse Workforce Requires Computer Science Mandates in Schools

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An often overlooked barrier is belief systems: teachers' unconscious biases about their students, dominant-group students’ assumptions about their peers, employers’ beliefs about women and people of color, andstudents’ beliefs about themselves can discourage girls and underrepresented minorities from pursuing careers in STEM.

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6 ways to make your blended learning PD more successful

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“Just do it” may be an effective slogan for a sporting shoe company, but it is not an effective change management technique to move to blended learning. Demonstrating belief in the models for all, rather than just being for school students. ” It is a significant shift in the teaching and learning paradigm.

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Smart Sparrow Raises $4 Million to Help Teachers—Not Tools—Drive Adaptive Learning

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The fundamental belief is that we should give teachers the power to create more resources, reflect on the quality of their creations, and then let them quickly iterate and improve,” says Ben-Naim. For every university, change management is just as critical a factor as financial investment.

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Campus Tech 2016: Recognizing—and Questioning—“Inevitable” Futures

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Finally, Newman noted that he’s seen institutions frequently overinvest in their analytic engines while simultaneously underinvesting in helping stakeholders actually understand the data, or in the change management processes that must accompany the data to actually make a difference. “AN AN EXPLOSION OF CONNECTIVITY”: Kokoon.

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Why a High-Achieving District Keeps Tinkering With a School Model That Already Works

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It’s a well-worn idiom, which shapes the belief systems of too many schools and districts across the country. We were able to ask questions about change management and get a sense of the challenges that we would likely encounter. We’ve all heard the old cliche, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.”

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3 common misconceptions that thwart school improvement

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Recently, my colleagues and I released a research paper that unveils common misconceptions about change management in schools. Given that many school initiatives falter for lack of teacher buy-in, we set out to uncover what actually causes teachers to change their practices.